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ADVENTURE WITH A FRIEND...

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SCENE 2: school classroom

outta dis joint out of this joint (out of disjoint = straight with the truth)

hit da row jack hit the road Jack (he got a long row to hoe) (we got a long row to hoe)

we all here to hear yo flo so hit us up wi wha go dow u know like gravy dee (we're here to know what's going on in the world. our chances look like poor finances (after flunkin out), like the dow (stock market, dow jones industrial average) going down like gravity deep, the truth all covered with gravy)

cut da banter cantor. we feelin is mean. (talk straight, this is important.) (we got to be serious.) (i'm feeling mean.) (someone's being mean)

cali chronic up here in da cushy crib [cali chronic and cush are slang for good pot.] (i got an answer to all our problems) (things aren't so bad, it's all good anyway, we got it a lot better than most.)

off da tay bay homie. off the table [it’s awesome] homie. (right. actually we got the best.)

O Mejico [and Mexico is "home" for Pedro, the el cholo O.G.]

Dan Dan Del Taco man! (don't be "Del" - delirious - come clean with the plan)

sky blue pank pink (blue skies are all i see)

go yo street cred baby girl got your street credentials. (go on and do it yourself)

You seen any baby roun hair? …around here? (seen his curly hair?)

aieee poll eye ta poin ain’t polite to point. (we at the poll so all in favor say "aye") (My eye on the poll)

but yo be nicey n we be spicey (treat us like ladies.)

So Dan way yo gonna drop da plan? So Dan when are you going to drop [announce] the plan? (which way you go?) (suddenly [so-dan-way] you gonna drop the ball you 'girlie-man'?)

we raidy! we're ready. (we ready for a raid)

we we uh brakes awe da cans… break out the cans. (put on the breaks) (break all the cans) (i'm in awe of the cans)

an well we uhm each packs it in, our bag (time to pack it in (forget it), our bad) (pack up our baggage) (lets drill a little deeper like a well)

an way chick'nhead ow fa schoo, an b fo we arrive and we check in, head out for school, and before we arrive (anyway, chickenheads) (i'd rather a chick give me head before school) (wait, chicken out) (let's check our head before school)

olsen deserve it but wha dad gone accomplice? ...but what's that going to accomplish? (i'll be an accomplice to the crime, just like my missing father)

we go fo give yo props playa fo da plan we give you props [accolades] for your plan, player. (we forgive you always just thinkin about your own 'props') (we'll go to prop you up to play out your plan)

it ridiculous up in here [It's all awesome.] (and nowhere else)

yay how sick is dad? …how sick [awesome] is that? (you got a sick dad?)

fo class prissy den for class president (you the class pris then, sissy)

yo nodda owny won Olsen keep outta college by failin. You’re not the only one… (you own or won nothing and never will, including me) (I'm nodding off, you’re boring me)

if yo be dissin me, callin me loopy den ice gonna calls mize boyfren ova dare take care a yo (if you be disrespecting or disinterested in me, don't call me then, i'm in the loop (i know what's up) chill dan (Dan ice) gonna call you a mouse (mice) stingy with love (mizer). real boyfriends dare to take care of babies (ova=egg) you yoyo.)

illegible for da draft eligible for the draft (i can't read the writing (draft) on the wall) (only dumb kids go to war)

your nose wi dah me? you know what that means? (your noose without me) (you nose around there without me)

da blow my mind, home garl. that blows my mind home girl (land mines far from home gnarly)

we ain ole enough...but we ole enough... (ole = olay! [like a bullfighter's expression])

wha kindsa edication do we gret? what kind of education are we getting? (waking edifications do regret)

wha summon won us fo no no wha we shoo know. what someone wants us to know not what we should know (we're summoned to win U.S. foreign war) (someone won us for no no. (I’ll be a) no show.)

we bayo dough summon! we better do something! (summon the doughboys [common name for soldiers in WWI] with their bayonets!) (we better get some cash together)

speaks ow...spew awe wha we sev'n seas ease comin! speak out [about] what we see is coming. (speak your pain in awe of the world tragedies or we easily could be going overseas)

house bow choo, roo? how about you, Ruth? (take a bow before the house, ruth) (you make me wanna sneeze)

lay sane root cn dooey n wheeze jiz cooey! let's say ruth can do it while we just cool it. (lay back, be sane, rooted, not "can dooey" wheeze (out-of-breath, breathless) for love (jiz, coo))

we dare root! fee yo flo. we're there [with you] Ruth, feel your flow. (we dare ruth to do it, ante up!)

da stuffs bees off da hingie doooo!!! this stuff is off tha hinges [is awesome] dude. (stuff it, beat it, off of me) (dehinge that bizzee bee 'tude)

house bow choo dan? how about you, Dan? (take a bow before the house dan?) (i aint sneezin at that)(how's about shootin'(choo-dan)?)

yo gotta bounce. [I have to leave.] (you got a bounce (to your step))

see ya awe a da schoo yo foo! see you all at school. (see awesome school fool) (takin you to school (teachin you all a lesson))

SCENE 5: Horatio and Dan

talk me fo git werse, dane talk to me before it gets worse, then (forgetting is worse, hamlet [hamlet is danish, the prince of Denmark])

dad i am that I am. (i'll be dad since you obviously ain't got one around)

stah down ghosts fo ya I'd stare down ghosts for you. [Horatio sees the ghost of Hamlet's father before Hamlet does in the play Hamlet.]

got no money fo layn I got no money to lend. (can't afford to get me or you laid)

promise pays it back. I promise to pay it back. (my promise is all you'll get if not the cash) (you've got promise and i can help you collect payback)

chew wanna do sumpin bouw da? Did you wanna do something about that? (chew on this...)

someone yo can't talk to, summon main …someone mean. (I can't talk to you, summon the main point)

say, da wreck astray...fo posta itty set the record straight for posterity. (save the wreck gone astray, the itty bitty poster child) (say, a big shipwreck! posted for everyone to see)

wha yo do when yo fell lie da dane? tale may! what did you do when you felt like that then? tell me. (did you ever fall into lies and tall tales like hamlet? tell me a tale so I may tell a tale)

Id werk? it work? (it's just my ego, huh?)

thank horatio. now guts tack hear a sum tin. …got to take care of something. (thanks to horatio now i got guts to tackle what i hear. i'll figure it all out (sum up) tin ["raindrops in a tin cup"]) (you are tacky)

horatio, yo be goose f'rain, but yo be strang. you're a good friend, but you're strange. (you're a goose for rain, but you're strung out (strang))

well-read n litter strang well-read and a little strange. (i read well in littered strings (pick up clues)) (i understand psychology - dynamics of strange litters)

duh gauliez dung dig man in glassuz dese daze the girls like a man in glasses these days. (gaul (remote barbarellas) dig man dung like drinking oz diesel from a glass in a daze)

ice aze! I say! (chill and check this out, she's from the ice age)

hay fella, wha? (want some hay, horsie?)

crackilackin? (are you about to crack?) [hey, what's up?]

sof! on da bacon eee! (Soft! On the balcony! [from "Romeo and Juliet"]) (your softness on my hard bacon, bacon in the oven)

Bud, dad, we dif'run fame e. lee! [though we're] from different family. (got some bud, get high? who's yo daddy?...) (I'm not a famous confederate general)

SCENE 6: spray painting teacher's car

i knows wise yo sane, bid doan "just dew it." I know what you're saying, but don't "just do it." (be wise and sane, bid down)

listen to meese (a mouse, not a man) id ma id-deal n id won! listen to me, it was my idea and it's wrong ("ma id" - mom's influence is my ideal and she won out over me. "ma id" – I'm not a maid to pick up after the deal you're making here.)

hey wuss gone on dare? what's going on there? (daring wussies?)

wheeze bawin! we ballin'! [ballin' = gangbangin', or playing a game of basketball](run til you drop and can't run no more)

…unless there was disappearing pain in those cans. (pain/paint)

…to present an original play… (we are presenting an original play here today for you, "all the world's a stage"–Shakespeare)

SCENE 7: tha 'hood at night

gonna han ow sum thang I fine yo dats I wants yuhs awes reads allowed. I'm going to hand out some thing I found that I want you all to read aloud. (ow – it'll only hurt a little; sum thang – sum up everything here; I fine yo dats – you guys are fine; I found some info (dats = data or stats); I wants yuhs - I need you; awes reads allowed – this is awesome and we're all allowed to read, read it loudly!)

Yo yo guts ta do dis! Yo, you got to do this! (don't be yoyos, have guts to do this, not dis)

I tells ya Peeps n Olsen be rhymin da same slang! [We and Olsen are talking about the same things, we share common views and concerns.] (we all feel the same way that something must be done about what's going on in the world – this play's theme)

"Cool it be a containuh!" "I coulda been a contender!" [Brando's line in "On The Waterfront" with a Don Vito Corleone accent] (cool it, contain yourselves, let it be, nuh! (no way))

Ta bees me oh nots da bees knees. Dat da quest. We gonna gi bizee. Huddles up, we gonna do da damn thang. But in da wayz we knows best. "To be or not to be that's the question."[-Shakespeare] We've got to get busy so let's work together and do this in our own way. (Let's be busy bees or else this thing will turn out just so-so, not great.) (Let's be ourselves and show them that.)

SCENE 8: school classroom

For you n I ta rock da mic as pot nuss in rhyme! About time we rap together teacher. (Let me try to find your language teacher – "rock?" "pot?" (sex, drugs, rock n roll, isn't that how it goes, teach?)

SCENE 9: outside in school parking lot, night

I half a boy f'rain hooey go to… medication re-treat? An… isn spose tawk wi any one. I ax im, “Well ass far go, dough yoyo tawks widow yo safes, days inn? I have a boyfriend who goes to meditation retreats and isn't supposed to talk with anyone so I ask him, well, as far as it goes, do you talk with yourself, then? (Are you half a boyfriend? Just a boy I keep for rainy days? For a laugh (hooey)? Are you meditating? Are you medicating (on drugs)? I'll axe you (I'd be tough on you, make you do your best.), Well ass far go (Wells Fargo; do you just wanna go so far as a piece of ass?) dough yoyo (are you just about money you nut?), tawks widow yo safes (would I be a widow someday? do you, I, we, play it safe?), wanna just go to the Days Inn?)

I really likes tawkin witch yo Root. Fo me it importin. …it's important. (It's real talking with you, you're rooted, down-to-earth. You're not a witch are you? (If you are, then transform me.) What can you do for an imp like me? Me import your love, me ain't impotent.)

Wha yo all way thinking bow thane? What are you always thinking about then? (Why you always looking down, praisin me? ("thinking bow"), "all way"– I'll turn you inside out, every way but loose, you tried every way but this is the way we gonna try now. Thane – "Thane of Caldor" from Shakespeare, a thane is a great leader, like an emperor or king, such as young Prince Hamlet of Denmark.)

Bee reflectin…on mice akshin. I won a deep convuhsayshin unit in froze greats cuz uh peace initiative. I've been reflecting on my actions and I want a deeper conversation to unite us for a great cause, a peace initiative. (Busy like a bee, looking back critically on my mousy actions of the past. So now I finally won, I went deep into myself. "deep…unit in froze greats" – deep freeze, my unit's goin in deep – it's like a big popsicle. "greats cuz uh"– we'll be like kissin cousins cuz we been friends so long. "uh peace initiative"– uh yeah this feels good, peace out now, let's get started, initiate. Gimme a piece. Let me initiate your piece.)

I id-ma yo fo yo intelligence, Dawn. I admire you for your intelligence, Dan. ("I"– I got you in my sights, I see you clearly now. Id, as in id, ego, superego (Freud): I see your mother in you. I'll be playin the role of your mother. We gotta wrest you away from your mother. "yo fo yo intelligence" – for a yoyo you're intelligent. "Dawn" - It's the dawn of a new day for you buster (with me); are you a girlie-man?)

I lernin from gray books, n peepsles. I'm learning from great books and people. (gray books are boring; but you're colorful.)

We go slums twang gawks bouts dane. We've got some things to talk about then. (Let's go slumming, gawk at a twang and bout (fight it out) with a dane (Hamlet is Danish)(Great Dane – Danny you’re a dog). –OR–Life will be a struggle (bout) with no money (slums), gawking at the world with a fiddle (twang), with you Dan.)

Rawlly? Really? (It'll be a raw experience. Ready to get raw? I wanna see you in the raw.)

Yeeeeaow. Yeah. (Meeeow, I'm purrin like a pooty tang cat. Ow this is gonna hurt a little. And how!)

Dormcest. (Like having sex with someone on your own dorm floor, I heard about.)

We all sexiles. [We're left out.] (Suddenly I realize that, or it looks like, we're exiles from sex and love.)

Da dope. That's dope. [It's cool.] (That's dopey, stupid, what you talking about? That's cool, maybe we should think about a little sex and love. It’s just the dope workin on your brain. Need dope for that.)

Root guts gooey haaaayd n a shoulda. Ruth got a good head on her shoulders.[She's smart and can take care of herself.] (The root cause or reason for this happening is that Ruth has the guts. That's gooey, hey! She must give good head. "Head & Shoulders" –how did she ever get a dude? she has dandruff! You can see her roots.)

Werd up. Dan playa guts gives Moanet her props. Word up [it's true that] Dan player got to give Monet her props [compliment her]. (Dan's just a player. He's the one with the guts. He's gonna prop her up against that wall. He's gonna give it to Monet (slang for a girl who looks better from a distance, like a still painting). Gotta give Ruth her props for moaning like that, that's hot!)

Whack u Troot is shay duh rail dale. …she's the real deal. (I'm gonna whack you, Truth. That's whack, Truth. Yeah, and you gotta go whack it yourself, Truth. I'll whack it for you Truth. The truth is she's the real deal. Truth is shady. This is a shady deal. Duh! She's skinny like a rail! (I got more goin on than that.) Mine are like mountains compared to her valleys (dale). Quit railroadin her.)

Aight. Playas owny big smoothin ah transistuh fo poster itty. It a bootyfull thane. …it's a beautiful thing. (It's alright, they're only playing to prepare for the big show, a transition for the future we all gotta make for our posterity. Ah! (Looks fun, I'd like to try it.) It's small thing (itty, transistor) compared to the big picture ("It's only sex"). Do we even need to broadcast this (transistor radio)? He probably has a little one anyway (itty-bitty). Her booty is beautiful. Her booty, with his thing? Is his thing big enough to make her booty full? If he's really great, he’ll follow through on his love and make the cash (booty) to bring home to her, like a real prince (thane).)

Ill a done deal off a awe. It's a done deal after all. (It's all over now after all. This is sick (ill). This is so cool (illin'). I think I'm gonna be sick. Her goose is cooked (done) on this deal. The deal is off. I'm awestruck. She's awestruck. This is not as awful as I thought maybe. This is a little different than I thought ("off"). I'm not in awe.)

Chang, yo fee da luv yayt? Ching, you feel the love yet? (You feel that? You feelin that? What’s it gonna cost me (fee) for a little 'day love' (afternoon delight)? "Yeahuh!" (yayt) – like th "Little John" yell. (yayt) - Have you ate yet?)

Blang yo sho be wastin yo thang yo guts gone dare. Bling, you sure are wasting your thing you got going on there. (You're always showin off. You're a gone girl. What a waste, my thang, and you there. Where did our guts go? Do we dare? Let's get wasted to get up the nerve.)

Is coo hook up wi Sloo? Is it cool to hook up [have sex] with Sleuth? (What are you cooing about, Sleuth? Is this cool? You wanna hook up (have sex)? Did I whistle at you?)

Luv flown over dis crew coo. Love's flowing over this crew. ("One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." Love always passed us over. I'm over this crew's cooing. This isn't love we're cooing about. Don't diss this crew.)

Now go back ta dune ah choo was dune like n you was dune ih. Now go back to doing what you were doing when you were doing it. (I ain't mad at you. This here was nothing to sneeze at. Love is like sand dunes in a desert. Now go lay on your back like you was doin it, with it in (ih).)